14 DAY TRIAL // It can take hours or days to 3D print something, and one can only imagine how much time can pile up when you have a number of different things to make. In the case of China's Forbidden City, the answer is four months.
At least that's how long it took Leapfrog to 3D print a replica of the Forbidden City, where the Dynasty of Emperors used to live.
Now, the Forbidden City is more of an open-air museum sector, but continues to inspire awe.
So Leapfrog, in collaboration with Dutch museum De Nieuwe Kerk and the Chinese Nanjing Museum, set about making a miniature copy of it to scale.
The project has been included in the Ming exhibition at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, which has been running since October 5, 2013 and will close on February 2, 2014.
All the temples, houses, gates, towers, walls, bridges and halls were included in the model. And a frog.